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The life of Paddy O'Flarrity, who, from a shoe black, has, by perseverance and good conduct, arrived to a member of Congress : interspersed with many curious anecdotes, calculated to improve as well as divert the youths of America / written by himself.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Flarrity, Paddy.
- Series:
- Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.
- Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Irish Americans--Fiction.
- Irish Americans.
- Legislators--United States--Fiction.
- Legislators.
- Youth--Conduct of life--Fiction.
- Youth.
- Political satire, American.
- United States. Congress--Officials and employees--Fiction.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 56 p. )
- Other Title:
- Life of Paddy O'Flarrity, who, from a shoe black, has, by perseverance and good conduct, arrived to a member of Congress
- Place of Publication:
- [Washington, D.C. : s.n.], 1834 [c1835]
- Notes:
- Reported to be a parody of a political figure of the time, probably either Thomas Hart Benton, Missouri senator, or Adam Huntsman, Tennessee congressman, who defeated Davy Crockett in the 1834 election.
- Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.
- Sabin no. 17575.
- OCLC:
- 11
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